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Current events of
November 23, 2014
(
2014-11-23
)
(Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
War in Afghanistan
:
A
suicide bomber
kills 45 people and injures 50 more at a
volleyball
game in
Paktika
province.
(Reuters)
Islamist insurgency in Nigeria
:
Boko Haram
militants kill 48 fish traders near the border with
Chad
.
(BBC)
War in Somalia (2009–present)
Kenyan security forces
cross into
Somalia
and kill 100 members of
Al-Shabaab
in response to the terrorist group hijacking a bus and killing 28 people.
(CNN)
Disasters and accidents
The death toll from yesterday's earthquake in
China
's
Sichuan
province rises to four with 54 injured.
(AP via Fox News)
Volcano eruption
on
Fogo island
,
Cape Verde
is among the strongest ever recorded on the island and is forcing the evacuation of the
Chã das Caldeiras
village.
(OceanPress)
Law and crime
Crime in the Philippines
The
Philippines
marks the 5th anniversary of the
Maguindanao massacre
.
(BBC News)
Philippine authorities sentence the security officers of the
Ozone disco
who were responsible for the safety of the disco when a fire occurred in 1996.
(BBC News)
Politics and elections
Tunisian presidential election, 2014
Voters in
Tunisia
go to the polls Sunday in the first free presidential election since the
Arab Spring's
Jasmine Revolution
.
(BBC)
(Pakistan Daily Times)
Tuinisia's
presidential election appears headed for a runoff between incumbent interim
President
Moncef Marzouki
and former
Prime Minister
Beji Caid Essebsi
.
(Bangkok Post)
The Cabinet of
Israel
approves legislation defining it as the nation state of the
Jewish people
.
(AP)
Sport
World Chess Championship 2014
:
Norwegian chessplayer
Magnus Carlsen
defends his World Chess Championship title after defeating
Vishy Anand
of India in 11th game of their match in
Sochi
,
Russia
.
(
Deutsche Welle
)
Britain's
Lewis Hamilton
wins the
2014 Formula One
world title after finishing first in the
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
.
(BBC Sport)
In
tennis
,
Switzerland
wins
the
Davis Cup
for the first time defeating
France
in the final.
(
New York Times
)
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